Saturday, March 1, 2008

Japanese adjectives

ADJECTIVES ALWAYS END IN A DIPTHONG OR TWO VOWEL SOUNDS TOGETHER. they can end in ai, ei, oi, ii, ui, The adjectives ending in ei somehow came to be irregular and don't follow the nice pattern set up for us by the other vowel comination endings. akai, kirei, aoi, utsukushii, atsui a i u e o in like manner are set up to become verb bumpo akakunaru, even kirekunaru, atsukunaru, aokunaru "its turning blue or its turning red" okikunaru- its growing larger or getting bigger"

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